Exam Preparation
The exam is on Thursday, June 21st at 8:00 a.m..
It is two hours long.
Bring:
a) three (3) things to write with (2 pens and a sharp pencil with an eraser)
b) a calculator (not your phone or iPod)
c) your textbook
d) water
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Exam Format
Part A- 75 multiple choice questions (75 marks)
Part B- Short answers: fill in the blanks, complete tables and charts, matching
terms, short answers (35 marks)
Part C- Longer Answer: you choose to answer a question about the unit that you
feel best about (10 marks)
What have we learned?
Unit 1-Ecology
Key words and concepts:
Lesson#1(Intro)-habitat, niche, abiotic/biotic factors, population, community,
ecosystem, ecology, sustainability
Lesson#2 (Ecological principles)-, primary and secondary succession,
photosynthesis, cellular respiration, trophic levels (producers/consumers
etc.),trophic level, food chain, food web
Lesson#3(Cycling of Matter)- the water cycle, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen
cycle
Lesson#4 (Planet Earth movie)- limiting factors, tolerance range, ecological
interactions
Lesson#5 (Aquatic ecosystems)- freshwater and marine ecosystems,
eutrophic, oligotrophic, watershed, estuaries, reefs, human influences
Lesson#6 (Limnology) -, zones of a lake, layers of a lake, thermocline,
turnover, summer kills, winter kills, human influences
Lesson#7- (Stewardship)- ecological equilibrium, biodiversity, Gaia hypothesis,
extinct, threatened, extirpated, endangered
Lesson#8- (Habitat Loss & Fragmentation)- habitat, Size, Number, Proximity,
Connectedness, Integrity
Lesson#9- (Invasive Species)- What’s the problem, weeds, pests, controls,
human influences
Lesson#10- (Pollution Problems)- air, water, and land pollution
Lesson#11- (Overconsumption and Resource Management)- natural
economic resources, clear-cutting, shelter-wood cutting, selective logging, mining
impacts, oil and gas impacts, wildlife management, reducing overconsumption
Lesson#12- (Modern Agriculture)- Native & non-native species, monocultures,
food crops, pests, differences between natural ecosystems and farms
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Lesson#13- (Soil)- soil organisms, what is soil, soil layers, soil nutrients,
fertilizers, leaching, no tillage farming, organic farming
Lesson#14- (Pests & Poisons)- plant pests, animal pests, broad/narrow
spectrum pesticides, herbicides, resistance, bioamplification, alternatives to pest
control
Lesson#15- (Urban Ecosystems)- characteristics or rural vs urban ecosystems,
ecological footprint, altered cycles, solutions
Ecology Unit review
pp. 158 &159 questions 1-54
P. 161 – Look at the Solve a Problem section questions for ideas about how Part
C will be on the exam.
P163. questions 69-73
What have we learned?
Unit 2-Chemistry
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Lesson#1(Properties of matter)- what is matter, particle theory, states of
matter, pure substances and mixtures, heterogeneous and homogeneous
mixtures, alloys, physical vs chemical properties, qualitative vs quantitative
descriptions
Lesson#2(Characteristic Properties of matter)- characteristic properties of
matter, density, freezing and melting points, the strange characteristics of water
Lesson#3(Elements and the Periodic Table)- what is an element, atomic
symbols/numbers/mass, metals and non-metals, patterns in the periodic table,
alkali metals, alkaline Earth metals, halogens, noble gases
Lesson#4 (Chemical and Physical changes)- WHMIS labels, lab safety
Lesson#5(Atoms, Elements, Compounds)- physical properties of metals and
non-metals, reading the periodic table, structure of the atom
Lesson#6(Ions)- Bohr-Rutherford diagrams, electron shells, valence electrons,
what are ions, ionic charge
Lesson#7(Ionic Bonding)- How does ionic bonding happen, writing formulas for
ionic bonding, the criss-cross rule, naming ionic compounds
Lesson#8(Covalent Bonding)- octet rule, differences between ionic and
covalent bonds, naming covalent compounds
Chemistry Unit review
pp. 288 & 291 questions 1-63
P. 291 – Look at the Solve a Problem section questions for ideas about how Part
C will be on the exam.
P294-295. questions 1-26
What have we learned?
Unit 3 –Space
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Key words and concepts:
Lesson#1(Intro to the planets)- the order of planets in the solar system,
characteristics of each of the eight planets
Lesson#2 (Motions of Celestial Bodies)- the causes of day and night time on
earth, definitions of a year and month, reason for the seasons, equinoxes,
solstices, mass and gravity, eclipses
Lesson#3(Sun & Stars)- 10 interesting facts about the sun, gas spectrometry,
Doppler shift, size and scale of our planet in the universe, the AU, light years
Lesson#4 (The Planets movie)- challenges for life on other planets, how we
know what planets are made of, potential evidence for life originating in space,
challenges of space exploration,
Textbook Review: : p. 440 q.14, 18, 28
p.443 q.19, 22, 25.
p. 448 q. 7-9,
p. 449 q. 12, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 27-29, 31, 32, 34.
What have we learned?
Unit 4 –Electricity
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Key words and concepts:
Lesson#1(Characteristics of Electricity)- What is an electric charge and how
does an object get one? Tools for detecting electric charge, practical uses of
static charge, charging objects by friction and conduction, what is grounding?
Lesson#2 (Electricity II)- conductors and insulators, charging by induction,
temporary and permanent charging, application of permanently charged inducers
Lesson#3(Lightning movie and static lab)- How does a Van de Graaf
generator work, pith balls, triboelectric series, how to detect type of charge
Lesson#4 (Electricity III)- Law of conservation of charge, the differences
between static and current electricity, open and closed circuits, switches, series
and parallel circuits, A/C vs D/C, types of batteries, resistors, applications of
current electricity, voltage and amperage, household wiring, electricity generation
(types, clean vs dirty, renewable vs non-renewable), moving electricity
Textbook Review: p. 588 q.1-4, 6-8, & 10
p. 589 q.11, 15,16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24
P. 590 q. 25-28, 30-32, 35, 36, 39-45, 48
P.591 q. 54-59, 62, 65-67
P. 593 q. 81 & 84